The first month of Trump in office unleashed chaos and turmoil with a series of executive orders threatening women’s reproductive rights, immigrants and sacred water guarded by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Trump presidency was a transition from a regime of secrecy to that of naked power. The legacy of Obama’s covert oppression is now being ...

Trump said he wants to cooperate with Russia in combating terrorism in Syria. Defense Secretary Mattis rejects the idea.
In Brussels at NATO headquarters, he claimed “(w)e are not in a position right now to collaborate on a military level, but our political leaders will engage and try to find common ground or a way forward so that Russia, li...

Donald J. Trump has proven on multiple occasions that he is unfit to be president of the United States of America. Since he has made it to office, he has gotten more than 100 detained at airports, because of his immigration ban which has stopped students from Muslim countries to return home to continue study or visit family.
He has declared war ...

Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that in 2015, while 30 percent of adults ha...

Trump has been in office for three weeks, but “Big Picture” host Thom Hartmann is already preparing for the awesome surveillance power his administration may use on its citizenry.
“What starts out as a small, necessary, temporary invasion of privacy soon becomes permanent. Then, once it becomes permanent, that surveillance power grows and ...

Like all revolutions, the 1979 revolution in Iran is too complex to be captured by a single adjective. It has come to be known as the “Islamic” Revolution, for it authored a regime ruling in the name of Islam and with the utopian mission of creating a just and pure Islamic society. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his loyal followers became th...

The Middle East and North Africa continue to roil in the aftermath of popular uprisings - revolutions that continue to shape Libya, Tunisia and Egypt after the fall of the strongmen running the show.
How the autocratic/theocratic dust settles remains to be seen, but the one revolution in the region that signalled an indisputable sea change was I...

Daesh’s barbaric games have killed thousands of innocent Turks till now. Eventually Turkey has decided to wipe Daesh out from the country.
According to media sources, Turkish forces from eighteen of its provinces have captured around 450 terrorists associated with Daesh. Around 60 terrorists from Ankara while 18 from Istanbul are being interro...

For centuries, the mottos “Independence, Liberty & Islamic Republic” have been the very things Iran lacked prior to the revolution of 1979. The Shah’s regime both politically and economically was fully dependent on the West and the Islamic Jurisprudence had no part in the enactment of law or taking and making executive decisions. After ...

It is not a transitory phenomenon. Iranian military leaders have rotated troops from across the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Artesh, and Basij into Syria in order to expose a significant portion of its force to this kind of operation and warfare. Iran intends to continue along the path of developing a conventional force-projection capabili...